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Wheelchair friendly holiday accommodation reviews

Was wondering if you had compiled such a resource guide as you had mentioned. I know this was over a year ago now, so hoping you can help me. I am an advocate for a disabled man who is wanting to travel around Australia and wishes to know what are the best spots to go to to find disabled friendly hotels, tours and attractions.
Any suggestions would be welcomed!

Hello,

I am in the exciting "brainstorming" phase of my vision to establish a fully accessible holiday destination for disabled people and their family or carer. Any ideas, suggestion or resources that you could suggest in planning this, my great adventure,would be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you,
Regards, Margaret

Hi. We have been on many holidays with our son who is in a w/c. Travelling around Australia, experience (good and bad) has been, that we now pre-book at w/c accessible cabins in caravan/tourist parks before going on holidays, and always take along a suction type grab bar to use on the bathroom wall if necessary. Quite often grab bars are on the wrong side, wrong height/place. Having our own has come in very handy.

The cabins are generally great and always clean and plenty of room for a w/c. There are always people around on holidays, so opportunity for interaction for us all.

Hope this is helpful. Enjoy your holiday.

My husband, son and I have stayed at Coffs Harbour NSW at Aqua Villa Resort in their two bedroom unit which is purpose built. We have stayed twice. My son is in an electric wheelchair and this accommodation is great. The owners cannot do enough to help even with moving one of the beds to make more room for the hoist. They are also able to raise the bed if more height is needed for the hoist. (Not all hoists have the same height room). It is a short walk from a shopping centre so if the person in the chair is independent enough they can go across by themselves.
Cannot recommend this enough as I could not see how anyone could fault it.

Hey just writing to let you guys know that i'm also in the process of making a web page to help disabled people out. it's www.freewheeler.com.au it's only new but it's coming along. it contains information on wheelchair accessible accommodation in Newcastle Australia as well as other stuff that should help people out like nursing info, things to do, accessible restaurants and a few other things. give it a look, we would love some feed back

Thank you for supplying this sort of information! Just wondering if anyone has done any cruising? Have heard mixed reviews about the facilities on cruise boats.

Jude, How reliable have you found are the suction type handles for bathroom? I have a very elderly husband who needs handles. Some advertised on the net have a maximum of 60kgs ... Jack is around 70kgs.

nice forum guys, I have a brother who is disabled and he has constant problems finding accommodation, he stayed in a really nice place last year called barneys place, its a holiday home in the gold coast, he was really impressed as it had all the mod cons and a disabled access swimming pool. Also fully fitted out for disabled access via ramps, Have a look at the web site, its under disabled accommodation gold coast in google or directly http://www.barneys-place.com/

I had the same problem, so I have produced a website so other disabled people and carers can share their experiences about good and bad access for the disabled. www.disabledaccessreviews.com